Open Data by BeautifulOpen standards for trusted representation.

Information locked inside proprietary systems limits both people and AI. Open Data develops open, machine-readable standards that allow trusted representatives, human and AI, to act safely and in people's best interests.

Principles

Open

The standards and the reference code are public and forkable from day one.

Machine-readable

Built for representatives, human and AI, to parse and act on directly.

Verifiable

Claims carry evidence, so a consumer can grade trust instead of assuming it.

Portable

Nothing here depends on Beautiful staying online.

Extensible

New domains add vocabulary, never a new kind of primitive.

Vendor-neutral

No standard favours the company that wrote the first draft.

Community governed

Ownership is designed to move outward as adoption grows.

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Standards

Reference implementations

  • Beautiful ProfileIdentity Open Data, Network Open Data

    Hosts and renders a person's signed profile and relationships, addressed by DID rather than a Beautiful-issued name.

  • RentifulResidential Open Data

    A rental product that consumes Residential Open Data to represent renters, landlords and letting agents.

  • Future examplesWork Open Data, Cars Open Data

    No reference implementation yet. These standards are drafts without a consuming product.

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Governance

  1. Today

    Beautiful is the initial custodian: drafting the standards and running the only reference implementations.

  2. Tomorrow

    As adoption grows, decisions move to a community process open to every participant, not just Beautiful.

  3. Future

    Open Data becomes independent infrastructure that can outlive any single company, Beautiful included.

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